we’re the wind
roaring through raggedy trees
on a wild november day
fish
a fish doesn’t exist
outside of brown leaves drifting
over the pavement
On Religion: Chris Hedges, Heresy, Christian Orthodoxy, and Imperialism
abstract: Hedges’ claim that “the Christian Right” has contaminated “the Christian religion“ with “aspects” of “American” society—“imperialism, capitalism, chauvinism, violence and bigotry”— that are alien to Christianity is historically false. These evils have characterized the most dominant strands of Christianity throughout its history. Hedges’ denunciation of the Christian right as heretical implicitly enacts an orthodoxy that has authorized and even required Christian “imperialism, … chauvinism, violence and bigotry.” When Hedges denounces the Christian right as heretical, he implicitly uses the orthodox logic that equates imperial might with sacred rightness, precisely the logic that the historical Jesus, according to a great deal of historical evidence, subverted.
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the city 1
climbing out of the lapping waves
up the rocks
making the breakwater
masses: memorial
the evenly spaced
black and white pillars
still stand over against
masses: after the fire
toxic clouds settle
into evacuated
burnt-out neighborhoods
Greenport 2020: transformations
a piece of smooth grey driftwood
draws eyes into
a sinuous body
Greenport 2020: others’ worlds
five a.m.
patter of skittering squirrels on the roof
above me
Greenport 2020: on the shore of Long Beach Bay
a small grey-backed shark lay dead
white belly up
on the mottled gravel
Greenport 2020 3: civilization
in the late morning
the roaring warring lawn mowers
and leaf blowers